Mint Snowball by Naomi Nye

Poetry. "Some of you may have encountered a wee chapbook of paragraphs from State Street Press called MINT that was first printed in 1991. If you were one of the people who liked that collection, or especially one of the generous teachers who used it in your classes, I thank you. This gathering contains some (not all) of those same pieces as well as more recent ones"--Naomi Shihab Nye, about MINT SNOWBALL. Born of a Palestinian father and an American mother, Naomi Shihab Nye is the author of seven poetry collections. She travels nationally and internationally as a visiting writer. Her RED SUITCASE and FUEL are also available from SPD.

Naomi Shihab Nye has received a Lannan Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and four Pushcart Prizes. Her collection "19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East" was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her collection "Honeybee" was awarded the Arab-American Book Award. She is currently serving on the Board of Chancellors for the Academy of American Poets. Naomi Shihab Nye has edited several honored and popular poetry anthologies, including "Time You Let Me In", "What Have You Lost?", "Salting the Ocean", and "This Same Sky", and she is the author of the novels "Habibi" and "Going, Going". She lives with her family in San Antonio, Texas.

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Publishers Weekly

A rolling repository of narrative incidentals, Nye's Mint Snowball, some of which was first published in 1991 as Mint, playfully documents Nye's chance encounters with friendly cab drivers, smalltown restaurateurs and fellow travelers from Texas to Nepal.